Japan introduces the all-new Brick Keitai!

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[SIZE="3"]Govt, private firms to tackle cell phone music piracy[/SIZE]
The Yomiuri Shimbun (Sep. 7, 2009)---The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry and the telecom and music industries plan to jointly introduce a system to prevent cell phone users from downloading illegally distributed music files to their cell phones via the Internet...
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...the envisaged system, when users download music files to their cell phones, the song's ID information will be sent from the cell phone to a computer server, which will check the information....If a user continues to download music, the server will either terminate the downloads or [SIZE="3"]render the phone incapable of playing the music[/SIZE] after it has been downloaded.

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[SIZE="3"]Govt, private firms to tackle cell phone music piracy[/SIZE]
The Yomiuri Shimbun (Sep. 7, 2009)---.

[IkemenTommy]

Here's the solution:
Make any kind of high speed file transfering via wireless or wired virtually impossible.

[Coligny]

You moderate yourself ?

You'ze a dipolar ?

[Mulboyne]

[FG Lurker]

Actually, when I visited Japan last time, I found I could use my account for two weeks because the service gives you a "travel allowance" before it disables your account if you keep using an IP address from an unlicensed territory.

You can probably "fix" this limitation if you have an always-on broadband connection in the UK. You need a router that supports VPNs that are compatible with the iPhone. You can then set up a VPN link from your iPhone (or computer) in Japan to that router and to the Spotify service it will appear as if you are accessing the service from the UK.

[Mulboyne]

Google's new Nexus One smartphone will apparently offer Spotify in the US for the first time. That will probably mean the premium version rather than the free version available in some European countries through PCs but it will be interesting to see if Apple allows it for the iPhone in the US given the competition it will mean for iTunes.